On Thu, 12 May 2016 17:56:09 -0400
Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 May 2016 16:29:56 -0400
> Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
>
>
> > I started this install last night, and it's still not finished. I've
> > installed Gentoo and Funtoo faster.
>
> There's something weird going on. It finally installed, I booted the
> image, and it's behaving like I don't have enable_kvm, which I do:
>
> ======================================================
> #!/bin/sh
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4096 -hda devuan.img -boot c -ctrl-grab \
> -cdrom /scratch/linuxinst/devuan/devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_amd64_DVD.iso
> -vga std -enable-kvm \
> -netdev user,id=mynet0 -device e1000,netdev=mynet0
>
> # -show-cursor
>
>

> #-netdev user,id=mynet0          -device e1000,netdev=mynet0         
> # -netdev tap,id=mynet0 -device e1000,netdev=mynet0

>
> #/scratch/linuxinst/sysrescuecd/systemrescuecd-x86-4.3.0.iso
>
> #lubuntu-15.04-desktop-amd64.iso
>
> # -show-cursor
>
> ======================================================
>
> The preceding script shows how I ran it.
>
> I'm going to use that exact script, with Ubuntu 14.04, to see if I get
> the same turtle slowness. This should identify any problems I have
> with the script I ran it with.

The problem happened with Ubuntu too, so this is almost certainly not a
Devuan or a DVD-sized installer problem.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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